A/N: Okay, so this is just a little thing I did after watching 'Michael'. It was prompted by the look Rachel gave after Quinn performed, and you can pretty much gather that from the writing, so I'll just stop. I hope you like it and have a play with the little blue drop-down menu if you want to.
Thanks, Josie, X.
Plans and pain go together like Rachel and Quinn.
"Even more incredible is her big news," Mister Schuester said.
Quinn's heart skipped a beat. She couldn't. Not again. She knew that Rachel was hurt. It had been obvious when she'd all but flung herself at her in the girls' bathroom. It was Rachel's way of covering up. She would always put her thoughts aside for the moment and show them when she thought Quinn wasn't looking, but she was - it was all she could do - and it killed her inside that Rachel felt she couldn't tell her how she really felt.
"Tell them," Mister Schuester encouraged, pointing to the rest of the Glee club.
She scrunched her eyes shut and put on a false grin, hoping she would fool the others in to thinking that she was happy - which she was, she just wasn't happy about hurting Rachel - and hiding from Rachel's reaction. "I got in to Yale!"
Everyone cheered, whooped and clapped.
Chancing a peek, Quinn opened her eyes and they instantly latched on to Rachel's big, sad brown eyes, the eyes she had looked in to so many times and seen her future. Quinn's heart broke in that single look. She watched as Rachel clapped, her smile barely visible as her eyes glassed over. She couldn't look away. Biting her lip, she sighed.
Oh, how she wanted to go and pull Rachel in to her arms and tell her that it would be okay, that they would work it out, she couldn't. She had already told Rachel that she had a great future ahead of her, how could she be selfish and lie to her? How could she tell her those lies when she knew that Rachel would believe them? She would only hold Rachel back from that great future if she did. She bit her lip hard and blinked away the tears, grinning and nodding as Mister Schuester began to speak to her, telling her how amazing it was.